With a car advantage so great it won 15 out of 18 grands prix in the 2004 Formula 1 season, Ferrari didn’t need to get too clever to earn its wins that year.
But to secure one of its most famous triumphs that year, Michael Schumacher and Ferrari did just that – pulling off a remarkable strategy trick to wrong-foot Fernando Alonso and Renault in a French Grand Prix that looked like it might go against the form book.
Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Glenn Freeman to dissect the Magny-Cours 2004 weekend in the latest episode of our Bring Back V10s podcast.
They look at the calls for a major F1 rules and format shake-up amid Ferrari’s crushing dominance of that year, and a dramatic announcement by FIA president Max Mosley that didn’t come to pass in the end.
They also discuss BAR’s efforts to slow Takuma Sato (above) down a little bit, David Coulthard being snubbed by most of the padddock as he tried to secure a 2005 drive and the mid-season arrival of a very different B-spec McLaren as Adrian Newey tried to turn his team’s year around.
ASK US ANYTHING! (about 1989-2005 F1) – Submit your questions for our end-of-series episode using the hashtag #BringBackV10s on Twitter, or you can email bringbackv10s@the-race.com.
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